[Nepomuk] On-battery indexing

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Sonntag, 6. Mai 2012 schrieb Vishesh Handa:
> > Could we do a limited indexing (a few files here and there, not
> > entire filesystems) when the user is on battery without much impact
> > on battery?
> 
> Yup. It is possible.
> 
> And in fact it wouldn't be too hard to implement.
> 
> Right now we have a kind of priority queue where files and folders and
> queued. Routine scanning and indexing of files are given a lower
> priority than files that are added by inotify. So, we just need to
> make sure that only files with this higher priority are indexed when
> the indexer is suspended.

Would be good for newly added files. And probably should be slower, lighter 
on resources than usual indexing.

Not for the initial scan of everything.

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